McKee-Farrar prosthesis

Later versions of McKee s design, referred to as the McKee-Farrar prosthesis, were clinically introduced in the 1960s. The McKee-Farrar prosthesis employed cement fixation, whereas the Ring prosthesis, developed in the 1960s, employed screw fixation. The photographs of the McKee-Farrar and the Ring prosthesis, shown in Figure 6.4, were taken from implants in the collection at the Thackray Medical Museum. 

McKee G.K., and J. Watson-Farrar. 1966. Replacement of arthritic hips by the McKee-Farrar prosthesis. J Bone Joint Surg 48 245-259. 

McKee-Farrar and the Ring prosthesis taken from implants in the collection at the Thackray Medical Museum, along with a radiograph of a dislocated Ring prosthesis obtained from the Charnley Museum at Wrightington Hospital... 

Jacobsson S.A., K. Djerf, and O. Wahlstrom. 1996. Twenty-year results of McKee-Farrar versus Charnley prosthesis. Clin Orthop 329 S60-68. 

In 1978, two years after the recognition of pseudo tumors of bone induced by the degradation products of total hip arthroplasty, Arden and Bywaters [20] (Table 5.1) reported a case of a 56-year-old patient who developed a high-grade fibrosarcoma of soft tissue 2.5 years after receiving a metal-on-metal McKee-Farrar hip prosthesis. The tumor apparently did not have a direct association with the underlying bone or any components of the total hip arthroplasty. No formal analysis of the tumor for debris... 

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